Lady Chatterley's lover
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
1885 – 1930
ENPublic Domain
Summary
"Lady Chatterley's Lover" by D. H. Lawrence is a novel first published privately in 1928. The story follows Constance Chatterley, an upper-class woman trapped in a passionless marriage to her paralyzed husband, who begins an affair with Mellors, the estate's working-class gamekeeper. Their relationship challenges rigid social boundaries and explores the essential connection between physical desire and emotional fulfillment. The novel's explicit content sparked worldwide obscenity trials and bans, becoming one of the most controversial works of the twentieth century. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Subjects
- Adultery — Fiction
- Disabled veterans — Fiction
- England — Fiction
- Erotic fiction
- Gamekeepers — Fiction
- Love stories
- Man-woman relationships — Fiction
- Married women — Fiction